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Sea Change

Set Design
1949 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Set design by John Piper for the Jetty in John Cranko's ballet Sea Change. View through a blue proscenium arch, with a white 'mast', centre right, from which hang two lines of geometric shapes in white, red and black. Signed in ink, lower left. Inscribed in pencil '3/8 blue' in lower left hand corner.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSea Change (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour, gouache, ink and pencil on paper, laid on card
Brief description
Set design by John Piper for the Jetty in John Cranko's ballet Sea Change, performed by Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 27 September 1949
Physical description
Set design by John Piper for the Jetty in John Cranko's ballet Sea Change. View through a blue proscenium arch, with a white 'mast', centre right, from which hang two lines of geometric shapes in white, red and black. Signed in ink, lower left. Inscribed in pencil '3/8 blue' in lower left hand corner.
Dimensions
  • Height: 36.3cm
  • Width: 46.5cm
Credit line
Given by the British Council
Collection
Accession number
S.2385-1986

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Record createdMay 12, 2011
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